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D. A. KILMER.

Bale-Tie.

No. 228,648. Patented June 8,1880.

'NVENTOR WITNESSES 9 6a; ATTORNEYS N. PETERS. ER, WASHINGYON D c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL A. KILMER, OF HOWES GAVE, NEW YORK.

BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 228,648, dated June 8, 1880.

Application filed April 5, 1880.

Howes Cave, in the county of Schoharie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bale-Ties; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 ot' the drawings is a representation of a perspective view of my bale-tie. Figs. 2 and 3 represent the ends of the tie detached.

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap, simple, and effective bale-tie, which will be more readily connected than the forms of bale-ties which approximate the nearest to the present devicesuch, for instance, as a cross-bar rectangular in form pivoted in a loop provided upon one end of a band and eombinedwith an outwardly-turned loopupon the other end of said band, such rectangular bar being expressly disclaimed' by me.

The essential feature of the invention consists in a diamond-shaped. plate swiveled upon the end of a twisted wire and adapted to be passed through an eye of the other end of the wire, and then, after being drawn taut, the plate will lie crosswise of the eye, thus look ing the tie.

In the drawings, A desi nates the twisted part of the wire, to which the diamond-shaped plate Bis swiveled. O designates a twisted end of the wire, which forms an eye, D.

In tying the bale the wire is drawn tightly around it and the swiveled diamond-shaped plate passed through the eye. By releasing the swiveled plate after it has been passed through the eye its inclined sides will inevitably strike against the wire which forms the eye, thus turning the plate upon its pivot and causing it to lie crosswise upon the eye. In this posi- (No model.)

tion it will be impossible to draw the diamondshaped plate through the eye. The formation of the plate will insure its turning and lying crosswise of the eye, since its slanting sides will invariably strike against the wire which forms the eye.

In baling, the eye and catch have in ordinary eases to be brought together at certain angles; otherwise it will be difficult to connect the two. In my form of tie the diamond shaped plate may he slipped through the eye either from the side nearest to the bale, or from what is usually termed the outside that is to say, the side of the eye farthest from the bale.

The slightest penetration of the diamondshaped plate within the eye will, as the parts are brought together, guide the plate in its passage through the eye. This eye may be made to approximate to a perfect circle, and this form will readily guide the diamond plate in its passage.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A bale-tie comprising a diamond-shaped swiveled plate and an eye adapted to admit of the passage of the plate through it, the length of the plate being such as to admit of its lying crosswise upon the eye, in the manner set forth.

2. In a bale tie, the swiveled diamondshaped plate B, constituting a catch, in combination with the eye D, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL A. KILMER.

Witnesses ROBERT EVERETT, JAMES J. SHEEHY. 

